Angry Orchard Crisp Apple has a bright, crisp apple flavor, just like biting into a fresh apple. It is a perfect balance of sweetness and bright acidity from culinary apples and dryness of traditional cider making apples, resulting in a complex, yet refreshing, hard cider.

Unlike ordinary apples, the bittersweet apples from France used in Angry Orchard impart tart and tannic characteristics and tend to look gnarly and unattractive – serving as inspiration for the Angry Orchard name.

the Boston Beer Company Angry Orchard is a hard cider company located near Walden, New York, United States, owned by the Boston Beer Company. It makes hard cider using apples from their own 60-acre orchard located in Hudson Valley, New York. In its first year, the cider was only available in New England, Colorado, Maryland, and New York.

Think Angry Orchard only makes apple ciders? Think again. The brand offers up a pear cider made with both apples and pears for those looking to try something new and surprising.

Cider is a kind of wine. It is not a kind of beer. Just like wine is made from fermenting grape juice, cider is made from fermenting apple juice. A place for making cider is a “cidery” or a “winery” and it is not a “brewery.” Beer is brewed.

Angry Orchard Crisp Apple is the #1 Hard Cider in the country. It's naturally refreshing, delicious, and has just the right amount of sweetness that makes is the perfect drink when you're looking for something a little different.

Why the Angry Orchard name? Our (lucky) cider makers travel the world in search of the very best cider apples. After touring countless orchards in the U.S., France and Italy, it dawned on them that some of the best apples for making cider actually look gnarly and angry, unlike apples you'd find at the grocery store.

With retail sales exceeding the 183 million U.S. dollar mark, Angry Orchard was undoubtedly the leading brand of cider in the United States in 2022. Other popular cider brands included Bold Rock, 2 Towns, and Ace.

The French cider groups are: sweet, bittersweet, bitter, and acidic.

Specific cider styles

Hard cider is an alcoholic beverage made from fermented apples (like how wine is made from fermented grapes). Like wine, starting with fruit gives hard cider taste profiles that range from fruity to dry. Your palette can pick up on the acids and tannins that come from the wide variety of apples.

Cider (/ˈsaɪdər/ SY-dər) is an alcoholic beverage made from the fermented juice of apples.